Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-23
WHAT MIST WE nor

W nAl MUST WE OOp
What must we do to boOmp This
question has BEN asked lately hun
dreIs If times in Medi:ine Lodge.
Kingman, Harper, Anthony, Caldwell
and Wellington on the east; KiOwa OH
the south and Greensburg, COldwater,
Ashland and Meade Center on the west
are enjoying most wonderful activity
just now, while Medicine Lodge is pur.
suing the even tenor of it's way, moth
ing exciting il and but little property
changing hands.
What must we do to boom? Medi-
cine Lodge is solid and wealthy town.
elegantly located, surrounded by a good
country. with prosperous business men,
substantial brick houses, the most
healthful city in the state. with plenty
OF pure and living water on two sides
of it, and yet we are not making the
progress we should.
Three or four new railroads are head
ed in this direction; but they are a
long distance off, and in concert with
the populace we will ask, What must
we do to boom Medicine Lodge ~
We have our own ideas of what
should be done, and will here make
some suggestions, though they may go
for naught.
We would first make an effort to get
the Fort Scott railroad to build from
IIaZeltOn TO this city. Even il the city
and township have to give S5,OOO/ per
mile for it even il we have to donate
the right Of way and build the road, we
would have it. At farthest the dis
lance is but Is miles.
Then, we would make efforts to get
the Border Line To come here from At
tica, and would even guarantee it a
southwest outlet.
We would organize local company
and utilize the water power Of Elm
creek. That would naturally be follow
ed by the establishment of mill and
perhaps other manufactures.
We would organize an electric light
company. This would not require any
great outlay of money and would he
most valuable advertisement for the
city.
We would have published monthly,
or even weekly, IN the newspapers of
this city, articles descriptive of the
county and city and we would have
thousands Of these sent east to the peO-
pie who are wanting new homes in the
west. We would have every citizen
constit' To- himself a special committee
of one - circulate these booming edi-
tiOns of the newspapers. We would
pay the printer" by ali means, for his
work.
We would have q meeting of real es-
tate agents and lot owners and cut ex-
actly in two the present prices on every
class of unimproved city real estate.
We would have established a schedule
of prices, always charging the sDecula-
tor double the price that would be ask
ed the purchaser who desired to i'm
prove the property.
We would have the township asses
sOr list every vacant lot at two-thirds
the cash price the owner asks for it,
and thus produce a revenue for the city
and county.
We would relegate to the shades of
Obscurity all busybodys, cranks, in
formers, all blacSmailers and mischief
makers {; all selfish and narrow minded
citizens who live wholly on the success
of others.
We would elect a liberal mayor and
council, men who would not be afraid
TO expend few dollars for the public
good, even if it was the money of the
dear people!
We would raise a fund to pay all
croakers to leave the city and make
way for men of to-day.
In short, we would wake up, get a
move on the population, attract atten-
ton and cause talk about Medicine
Lodge spend money for advertising;
risk something; do something or else,
we would sell out this city and the eel
egant building sites" for a grave yard
for KiOwa or Pratt Center.